David M. Rubenstein

David M. Rubenstein was presidential advisor to James Earl Carter, Jr.. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission and he is a director of the Institute for International Economics. He is on the board of trustees of Freedom House.

In 1987, Rubenstein founded the investment house Carlyle Group with $5 million. The Washington-based merchant bank is now worth $14 billion in investments. Carlyle is described as one of the most connected companies: former president George Herbert Walker Bush is an adviser; former British prime minister John Major heads the European branch; former secretary of state James Addison Baker III is senior counselor; former White House budget chief Richard Darman is a partner; and former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt is a senior adviser.

Carlyle purchased United Defense Industries, the largest defense contractor in the U.S.

"Prior to co-founding Carlyle in 1987, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York, with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in the Carter Administration; and practiced law in Washington, D.C., with the firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge.

"Mr. Rubenstein is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

"Mr. Rubenstein is a ... Director of the International Institute of Economics and the Center for Strategic and International Studies; the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; the Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; and the Board of Advisors of J.P. Morgan Chase.

"Mr. Rubenstein is married to Alice Rogoff Rubenstein." 


 * Vice Chair, Lincoln Center
 * Director, Council on Foreign Relations
 * Director, National Museum of Natural History
 * Trustee, University of Chicago